Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-17
THE INDIAN WAR.
THINGS NEARING ACRISI> IN THE WHITE
RIVER COUNTRY
Reports Of B4t;.e IN the Vicinity Of Meeker
C9@-ai5-A Sketch Of Old CoArOw,
yae Chief Vic Is az the
Head Of the Party.

sAN N.tL- WIZ .At
Head Of he Party.
CHICAGO, August lG.-A special from
Rawhns, Wyoming, says: \ messenger
has just arrived from White River, Col.
who reports that about one hundred and
hty Ties are lighting at Beaver Creek,
fifteen miles from Meeker Families are
rushing into Meeker and more Indians are
coming The country is all on fire below
Meeker between the White and Bear
rivers. Mr. Golden, the messenger, is
One hundred armed men are
ready aud will march on th1 Utes. The
women are making bandages and the town
is thoroughly excited.
THE CATTLE BEING GATHERED yr.
A Grand Junction, Col, special says
The manager OF the Philadelphia Cattle
Co. came in yesterday from White River.
Tie says some white men and the cOuriers
from ColoJows came To the iutah reServa-
tiOu below Elugely and the Indians forced
them back aud drove them at full speed
The Decker Bros. and other cattle men are
riding night and day gathering up cattle
and hurryiug them from the White River
range All settlers In that locality have
been warned by white courierS to leave
and they are abandoning everything TO
get away before the Indians can arrive
from the reservation.
SO NEWS pE = FIGHT
No continuation of the rumored conflicts
with C0lorO vs. band OF savagcS has been
received up to 1880 o'clock this morning
at Gen Terry's headquarters in this city,
where any official news would be first
learned. Cen Terry's jurisdiction in
cludes the troubled district. and Gen.
Crook, who Is in immediate command OF
troops nearest the scene Of hoStIlities is uu-
der express instructions to wire all obtain
able information here 1T the earliest posi-
b moment
A special from FerguSon's Ranch, thirty
miles from Meeker, by courier to Glen-
wood Springs, August H. noon, says
Twenty-Five miles up Iupper'S Lake,
CulOrow. the tie Chief, /, eucamprd, sur
ruuaded by about ninety lighting bucks
Colurnw is only lew miles ahead OF Sheriff
Kendall and >iNty-tOur men from Nrrier
and Clruwood Springs who, it is probable
Will catch up with him in a trw houJs,
when a night will euSue. There Is but lit
lie doubt expressed as to
THE FINAL EE~ULL
aud unless the Troublesome savage reaches
the { iutah agency, Tor which he is sup
posed to be heading, before the Sheriff aud
ms party come up with him, he will prob
ably never see II again.
The Sheriff : posse, among whom are
numbered the best lighting Tauchmen and
cowboys OF Pitkiu and Garfield counties,
have caught sight OF the hostles twice
since the reIniOrCements arrived. About
ten miles west OF Plceauce Creek the'Sher-
III and his party caught sight OF the band
and courier this morning on the way 20
Gleuwood Springs reports that several
shots were tired by both parties. The lu-
dams, however, have deserted their women
aud herds because alarmed at the size Of
the Sherihfs outfit, and taken to the hills,
going towards Cathedral Bluffs. The
Sheuu"S party followed them all day, but
lost them last night
The courier SAYS the settlers in the west
rru part OF the State are all aroused, aud
every ranch Is
GUARDED NIGHT ASD DAY.
At Meeker loo uru, armed with rifles and
gayolyrrs. are 20. ted about the town and
accommodating the hills around it to pre-
vent surprise. IL Ii anticipated that
Co!ogow will change his mind about going
% the ranch and perform a flank move
mrut on Sheriff Kendall and come toward
Meeker. HE informed a halt-hreed who
came up Cattle Creek Thursday that he
WITS coming down. lie also told a half
breed that after he had burned Me-kcr he
wus going up to Fort Duqucsne and clean
out the buffalo soldier" soldiers mean
lug the rulorcd regiment stationed there,
and then was going "a he revcnged tor the
refusal of peaceful Indians at the tlutah
reservation tor not Joining him IN his pres
eut Incur-iOu.
There Is no doubt that the old fellow
MEANS BUSINESS,
and If permitted to enter Meeker will DO
some bloody work there II this Is his in
trution he will 20 to Cathedral Bluffs and
cross the Great Hogs Back into the White
River county. This will occupy about
three DAYS, aud in order 10 cut him oil the
courier saws sheriff Kendall has sent out
some scouts to organize the settlers into
defense parties and stop his progress, 30 1t
is probable that a meeting will cnsue with
900 the next twenty-tOur hours. The cour-
l-t1fal gr htH|E- n
rurrd at the meeting "a Saturday and his
body WAS left on the ground.
old Coloruw d, evidently prepared Tor
ALONG CAMPAIGN.
ON Thursday night he sent the women and
Do, uu,it to Douglas Creek in charge ofthe
medicine man known among the whites as
Granny and sin braves The women and
their escorts have reached the creek and
are now euramUcd tn wait COlorOw on hIs
return from MCcker. He also sent three
couri,r5 to the Untah Agency Tor bucks,
hut they have not returned Colurow =
original band number only about thirty
Warriors, hut he rot sixty more from
hunting party which hud lett the Ucs,rya-
ton This make the force number about
uiuety-Hye. and with this he il y tormida-
ble enemy. lie Knows every foot oi the
surrounding country, and is probably the
most intelligent Indian in the Stat, with
q knowledge OF warfare that Is quite re-
mIrkable
Hc is endowed with
EESINEEArLECIruUY,
which lrnuticrsmeu fear. Trrucherou, and
cruel, he Is not slow to take advantage aud
utilize 1t, which nc invariably does with
selt-heneGt lie Is a restless old fellow,
aud, although siNty-seyen years OF age,
covers as much ground and shoots with
such uu,rrug aim IS to place the deeds OF
the young men ot his tribe IN the shade.
Col Henry, who was in the campaign
against the Utps after the massacre OF
Thouburg aud his comrades and the muir
der OF Agent Merritt, said that 10 1t was
true that the tes had broken ont, 1t would
not h, matter simply OF day to put
them down. They were armed with the
most approved rifles, and the rOughuess OF
their country was such that they could
safely defy an army to dlslodge them.